HDW users can opt-in to the beta group and play with the new app now. There’s also a new Colourform theme pack beta available in the same group.

The UI is fresher and lighter while under the hood got a major revamp. The new app uses a side menu for fast and easy navigation. The weather screen now includes an hourly forecast graph, 7-10 day forecast, and more details. There’s also new prefs, support, guides, widgets, and much more to be announced next week.

Please help us spread the word about the beta so we can round up as many people as possible to test the new app. HD Widgets currently has almost 1M active users and it’s been over a year since our last major update; we really want to release the best app we can.

HD Widgets 4 is scheduled for staged roll out beginning Thursday, May 1st. We’ll have complete details (and a few surprises) at that time.

At long last, we’re very happy to announce the release of Colourform for HD Widgets.

Colourform features over 50 colorful new Jellybean / 4.2 style widgets for Android phones and tablets. This light-weight pack (only 2MB) focuses on a simpler, more minimal, flat UI design while allowing more flexibility and customization than ever before.

A lot has changed on Android in the last couple of years. When we first started HD Widgets, toggle switches were very common and we could all do a lot of things with them. Since then, many common toggles such as GPS, 3G, and even Flight Mode have been made inaccessible by updates to Android OS.

HD Widgets will soon have over 50 switches – except most of them aren’t really “switches”. At current count only 18 actually toggle something. The rest are simply status indicators & action triggers.

To keep up with the times we’re going to change what we call these things. You’ll soon see it in Colourform. Switches will be called Quick Settings to match Google’s naming style for the notification switches introduced in Jellybean.